The Two Mrs. Carrolls (Warner) is a melodrama about a daft painter who subtly murders one wife after another. It was a Broadway hit chiefly because it provided a superb five-finger exercise for one of ...

Alexis Smith was often called “statuesque,” and that is how she first appears as Cecily Latham in “The Two Mrs. Carrolls” (1947). She is wearing a silvery snood and an immaculate white ensemble. As ...